Alireza Ghorbani ( fa, علیرضا قربانی; born 4 February 1972) is an Iranian traditional vocalist.

Biography

He began his career by reciting the

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. Soon he began eagerly learning traditional Iranian music. In 1984, he was fascinated by compilations of poetry and music and the insight of Iranian music under the supervision of his first mentors: Khosro Soltani, Behrooz Abedini, Mahdi Fallah,

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, Ahmad Ebrahimi and also Razavi Sarvestani. His acquaintance with

Ali Tajvidi Ali Tajvidi ( fa, علی تجويدی; November 7, 1919 – March 15, 2006) was an Iranian musician, composer, violinist, songwriter, and music professor at the School of National Music and Tehran University. He composed more than 150 songs and ...

and

Farhad Fakhreddini Farhad Fakhreddini ( fa, فرهاد فخرالدینی; born 11 March 1938 in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan) is a renowned Iranian composer, conductor and founder of Iran’s National Orchestra. He led Iran's Radio and Television Orchestra from 19 ...

led him to new horizons of Iranian music. He has taken part in many important

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all over the world together with many musicians. Some of these festivals and programs are available on CD. He has been the vocalist of

Iran's National Orchestra Iran's National Orchestra ( fa, ارکستر ملی ایران) is a national orchestra of Iran, which was founded in 1998 under the conduction of Farhad Fakhreddini. The orchestra had been formed by Persian traditional instruments, strings and ...

since 1999 and has joined many concerts and festivals within Iran and abroad. ''Enthusiasm'', the first album of National Iranian orchestra, has also been composed by Farhad Fakhreddini. Although he collaborated in making soundtracks for many different TV programs such as ''Kife Englisi'', ''Shabe Dahom'', ''Roshantar az Khamooshi (Mollasadra)'' and ''Madare Sefr Darajeh''. His latest albums are ''Az Kheshto Khak'', ''Fasle Baran'', ''Rosvaye Zamaneh'', ''Sarve Ravan'', ''Symphony of Molana'', ''Soogvarane Khamoosh'', ''Rooy Dar Aftab 1,2'', ''Eshtiagh'', ''Ghafe Eshgh'', ''Khoshnevise Seda'' and ''Sarmasti (Khayyam)''. The concert of “ Hame Iranam” or A Persian Night with

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Orchestra conducted by Shardad Rohani, was performed at the

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, Canada on January 6, 2018. The world premier of

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"Hame Iranam" composed by Kambiz Roshan Ravan was performed in this concert and Alireza Ghorbani was the vocalist of this Symphonic Poem. The concert of “Resurrection” or “A Persian Night" with

Orchestra featuring Vancouver Bach Choir conducted by Leslie Dala, was performed at the Orpheum theatre in

, Canada on January 20, 2019. Alireza Ghorbani was the vocalist in his second performance with

Orchestra. He collaborated with

Homayoun Shajarian Homayoun Shajarian ( fa, همايون شجريان, born May 21, 1975) is an Iranian singer. He is the son of Mohammad-Reza Shajarian. Early life Shajarian was born in Tehran and is the son of Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, a grand master vocalist ...

on his latest album ''Afsaneye-Chashmhayat'' released on 10 Nov 2019. “The Voices and Bridges” is an ongoing multi-lingual, multicultural collaboration between musicians from many parts of the world including Alireza Ghorbani (

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) in collaboration with Ehsan Matoori as a composer and

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, Qaiser Nizami, and others. This music project is an exploration which brings together languages of ancient cultures such as Persian,

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, English, Turkish, Indian and French to create a new story inspired. The style and genre used in the project is Global Music inspired by different musical traditions. All musical tracks are recorded acoustically. The lyrics are inspired by many prominent poets around the world such as Borges, Youshij,

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, Lal Ded, Rabindranath Tagore, and Rumi.

Discography

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ghorbani, Alireza 1972 births Living people 21st-century Iranian male singers Singers from Tehran Persian classical musicians Barbad award winners

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